TY - JOUR
T1 - The impact of individual, organizational, and environmental attributes on voluntary turnover among Juvenile correctional staff members
AU - Mitchell, Ojmarrh
AU - Mackenzie, Doris Layton
AU - Styve, Gaylene J.
AU - Gover, Angela R.
N1 - Funding Information:
* We wish to thank Robert Brame, Andromachi Tseloni, and Deanna Perez for their insights and criticisms of an earlier version of this work. In addition, we would like to thank three anonymous reviewers for their astute comments. The data analyzed in this study were ftmded in part by Grant 96-SC-LX-0001 from the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, to the University of Maryland. ** Ojmarrh Mitchell is a doctoral student in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland. His areas of interest are innovations in courts and corrections, and policy analysis. *** Doris Layton MacKenzie is a professor at the University of Maryland in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice. She is currently the director of the National Evaluation of Juvenile Correctional Facilities project. Recently she has also completed a self-report study of probationers' compliance with supervision. **** Gaylene J. Styve has advanced to doctoral candidacy at the University of Maryland. Her primary research interests are corrections, juvenile justice, evaluation research, methodology, and applied statistical modeling. Currently she is examining the role of prison privatization on the quality of juvenile institutions. ***** Angela R. Gover is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland. Her research interests include corrections, juvenile justice, family violence, and evaluation research. Currently she is conducting research on the influence of exposure to family violence on juveniles' psychological adjustment to correctional facilities.
PY - 2000/6
Y1 - 2000/6
N2 - In this study we assessed the impact of individual employee characteristics, organizational attributes, and quality of the correctional environment on the turnover intentions of juvenile correctional staff members. Both individual characteristics and organizational attributes were significant predictors of turnover intentions. The individual characteristics were age, race, and education; the organizational variables were job satisfaction, stress, and staff support and communication. In general, the organizational attributes were stronger predictors of turnover. Only one variable pertaining to the quality of correctional environment, facility's amount of care toward juveniles, was significantly related to turnover. In contrast to findings of previous research, dangerousness, gender, and tenure were not related to staff turnover. We discuss the implications of these results for correctional staffing.
AB - In this study we assessed the impact of individual employee characteristics, organizational attributes, and quality of the correctional environment on the turnover intentions of juvenile correctional staff members. Both individual characteristics and organizational attributes were significant predictors of turnover intentions. The individual characteristics were age, race, and education; the organizational variables were job satisfaction, stress, and staff support and communication. In general, the organizational attributes were stronger predictors of turnover. Only one variable pertaining to the quality of correctional environment, facility's amount of care toward juveniles, was significantly related to turnover. In contrast to findings of previous research, dangerousness, gender, and tenure were not related to staff turnover. We discuss the implications of these results for correctional staffing.
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U2 - 10.1080/07418820000096351
DO - 10.1080/07418820000096351
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0347947721
SN - 0741-8825
VL - 17
SP - 332
EP - 356
JO - Justice Quarterly
JF - Justice Quarterly
IS - 2
ER -